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ICMDA Recordings episodes

October 10, 2023 Webinar #64 Dr Hotlin Ompusunggu - Healthcare and deforestation
Recorded on 15 July 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Hotlin Ompusunggu.
Dr Hotlin, a licensed dentist, comes originally from Sumatra. She has four years experience serving in an Indonesian government clinic in a rural part of Sumatra, including two years as the director of a mobile clinic and on-board dentist that traveled via boat in rural Sumatra. She also coordinated medical and dental teams in the wake of the Tsunami in Aceh.
In 2007 she co-founded ASRI (Alam Sehat Lestari), an NGO in West Kalimantan, Indonesia; combines conservation and health care in remote southwest Borneo by giving local people health care incentives to preserve the globally important rainforest.
In 2019 Hotlin started another NGO in North Sumatra, Healthy Planet Indonesia (HePI) to replicate the integrated healthcare-conservation approach. Hotlin’s passion lies at the intersection of human and environmental health.
She believes that, 'not only can we have healthy people and a healthy environment, but the two are fundamentally interlinked.'
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1 hr
October 10, 2023 Jeff Barrows - Developing advocacy capacity for health issues in your context
A breakout session from the 17th ICMDA World Congress in Arusha Tanzania.
Recorded in June 2023.
Please note the recording may be incomplete or of poor quality in places.
57 min
October 09, 2023 Webinar #57 Dr Mike Chupp - Mentoring Christ followers in healthcare
Recorded on 20 May 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Mike Chupp.
Despite the recognition that successful mentoring experiences are usually the result of intentional and committed relationships between mentor and mentee, there are still challenges in achieving consistent, positive outcomes for mission driven Christ followers in healthcare.
Healthcare professionals in all specialties face unexpected challenges, failures, and disappointments throughout their careers, across a broad spectrum of life, work, and ministry. This webinar will focus on the essential commitments of both mentor and mentee who serve/work across a wide spectrum of healthcare specialties throughout the various stages of their careers.
Mike Chupp, MD, grew up in Mooresville, Indiana, the oldest of six kids. As an Eisenhower Scholar, he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a pre-med degree from Taylor University in 1984, and then he received his medical degree as an AOA scholar from Indiana University in 1988. He is the current CEO of CMDA USA.
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58 min
October 05, 2023 Webinar #169 Dr Ted Hamilton - Physician Burnout: Prevalence, Prevention and Resilience
Recorded on 5 October 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar with Dr Ted Hamilton.
Physician burnout has become an issue of international concern. Beginning over a decade ago, researchers began to identify the cardinal characteristics of burnout as depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and loss of satisfaction in work. Early studies identified physicians as at particular risk of burnout, with half or more US physicians admitting to one or more symptoms of burnout.

The causes of this condition are multifactorial, including work-life imbalance, loss of professional autonomy, and bureaucratic burdens. Essential remedial strategies include personal resilience, institutional commitment to change, and national efforts to address underlying structures and policies.
Ted Hamilton is a family physician and physician executive with AdventHealth, a 52-hospital, faith-based, mission-focused healthcare system. He and his wife, Jackie, celebrated their Golden Anniversary in 2019. They have two daughters and two grandchildren, both of whom are pursuing careers in healthcare.
Ted’s career spans a half century, and includes rural private practice, teaching and directing a family practice residency, serving as medical director/leader for various entities, including a large academic medical group, inpatient, outpatient, and third-party entities. Ted is a lifelong follower of Jesus Christ, teacher of Scripture, church leader, and community servant.

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1 hr 1 min
October 04, 2023 Webinar #65 Dr Jelena Sivulka - Caring for our souls
Recorded on 22 July 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jelena Sivulka.
Jelena was born and raised in Serbia, where she got her master’s degree in psychology and in theology. She became a Christian 25 years ago and a few years later got involved in ministry with her husband Greg, planting churches, distributing humanitarian aid, and partnering with Joni and Friends, serving people with disabilities.
Jelena has also worked as a counsellor in Serbia’s schools and a social worker, and she is currently working as therapist in a medical clinic. She is the founder and director of the non-profit organisation Hana's Hope. She has been blessed with three children: Benjamin, Sara, and Hana, who has autism.
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1 hr 1 min
October 03, 2023 Webinar #67 Prof John Wyatt - The Doctor's Conscience
Recorded on 5 August 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof John Wyatt.
Conscientious objection as a right is enshrined in the laws of many countries and in professional medical guidelines, but has recently come under attack.
The concept of the conscience goes to the heart of what it means to act in a moral way, with integrity. There have been shocking historical examples of medical abuses after conscience has failed. The right helps preserve individuals' moral integrity, preserves the reputation of the medical profession, and safeguards against coercive state power.
John Wyatt is Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, University College London, a Senior Researcher at the Faraday Institute, Cambridge and President of the UK Christian Medical Fellowship.
He has a clinical background as a paediatrician caring for sick and premature infants and also a medical scientist researching into the prevention of brain injury in newborn babies.
He has always been interested in ethical dilemmas raised by advances in medical technology and has frequently engaged in public and professional consultations and debates from the perspective of the Christian faith.
His book Matters of Life and Death– human dilemmas in the light of the Christian faith has been translated into more than 10 languages. He and his wife Celia are longstanding members of All
Souls Church in London.
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1 hr
October 02, 2023 Webinar #68 Dr Soo-Inn Tan - Vocational Discernment
Recorded on 12 August 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Soo-Inn Tan.
We are all called to follow Christ. But is there also a special calling we have been given? This webinar will explore the question of vocation and give helpful guidelines as to how one can discover and carry out one’s calling. This is especially needed in the fields of dentistry and medicine where there are many specialty options including the options of general practice or practicing medicine on the mission field, or even leaving medicine to do something else.
Rev Dr Tan Soo Inn qualified as a dentist from the University of Singapore and worked as a dentist for several years before enrolling in seminary in obedience to God’s call for him to serve as a pastor. He obtained a ThM from Regent College and a DMin from Fuller seminary. His passions include connecting the Word of God with the struggles of daily life and the practice and promotion of spiritual friendship. A Malaysian residing in Singapore, he is the chaplain of the Singapore Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship. He has read the Lord of the Rings nine times.
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58 min
September 29, 2023 Webinar #70 Dr Trevor Stammers - Xenotransplantation: A solution to organ shortages?
Recorded on 26 August 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Trevor Stammers.
Trevor was the editor of The New Bioethics, an Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Law at St Mary's University, London, and was a family doctor for 27 years before going into academia.
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1 hr 1 min
September 28, 2023 Webinar #168 Dr Milton Amayun - Serving the urban poor
Recorded on 28 September 2023 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar with Dr Milton Amuyan.
The majority of the world’s population now lives in cities. This concentration of people in urban centers will intensify in the years to come. Many cities with populations of one million or more are added to the already long list each year.
Urbanization requires investments in infrastructure, jobs, education and social services. The lack of regional urban planning has led to increasing problems of homelessness, unemployment, pollution, lack of water and sanitation, crime, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, trafficking in persons and other illegal behaviors.
It is a mission field with many challenges. Yet it is in the cities where God’s message of redemption is most needed and where Christians serving with love can make a great impact.
The webinar examines some crucial opportunities for Christian service in this vast mission field, where the Gospel can transform the quality of lives of children, the youth, adults, families, and communities around the globe.
Milton earned his MD from the University of the Philippines and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. At the 1978 World Congress of the International Congress of Christian Physicians (ICMDA’s predecessor), he met his wife Dr. Raija Ebeling from Helsinki, Finland. They were married in Bangkok, Thailand in 1982 and then served in Thailand, Costa Rica, Cambodia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Senegal, the United States, Eastern Europe, Benin and the Philippines.
Dr. Raija went home to the Lord in September 2022 after a two-year long illness while they were stationed in Manila. Since then, Milton’s involvement with poverty issues has further intensified.
He is currently the President of Yuchengco Center, a think tank on poverty; chairs or sits on the Board of Directors of several civil society organizations; and teaches leadership and development themes in a private university. He also leads a home church once a week.
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54 min
September 26, 2023 Webinar #69 Dr Megan Best - Ethics of in vitro fertilisation
Recorded on 19 August 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Megan Best.
Megan Best is a palliative care specialist, medical ethicist and researcher. She developed her interest in spirituality in healthcare when she observed the importance of meaning-making while caring for patients at the end of life. She was awarded her PhD for her study on the role of the doctor in the spiritual care of cancer patients.
She has continued her research into spirituality in healthcare at the University of Notre Dame Australia, where she is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Ethics and Society.
She is the author of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Ethics and the Beginning of Human Life (2012) and A Life Already Started (2013).
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1 hr 3 min